"Now, hopes for a better life have turned to bitterness as poverty and corruption stall the country's progress, LA Times commented in an article marking the anniversary"------too severe. What if to formulate it a bit otherwise: "In 1999 Democracy through its organ "NATO" triumphally achieved the planned result with the easily predictable consecuenses", the more so that not Consequences but Democracy must go first, right? ;-)

Russian military units in Ukraine? No one confirmed fact. But there is the Ukraine's military Chief of Staff Victor Muzhchenko's official declaration of January, 28, 2014 that, de facto, there is no Russian regular units in Ukraine. And he wasn't dismissed, his words were refuted by no one Ukrainian top official. Nice floor for meditations about how honest Western leaders and World media are.......

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